Brown must be feeling confident to be coming to a rural corner of the state on the home stretch. Hopefully no false rumors about press bans this time.
I hope he’s going to try to boost some local progressive candidates. Could make a difference in any photo finish on Tuesday.
From the Humboldt Democrats:
Join Jerry Brown at the Samoa Cookhouse Sunday morning
Huge rally will be open to the public
Eureka – The Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee is excited to announce that the next governor of California, Jerry Brown, will begin his final campaign swing in Humboldt County. Brown and his campaign will be at the Samoa Cookhouse this Sunday morning, Oct. 31, for a Get Out the Vote Rally, from 8 to 10 a.m.
The main event will be held inside the Cookhouse’s banquet room, which has seating for 175 people. The Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee and the Central Labor Council of Del Norte and Humboldt counties have asked the Brown campaign to not reserve all the seats in the room, so that there will be about 75 seats available for the general public on a first come-first serve basis Sunday morning. This will be strictly controlled via a number system. Line-cutting will not be tolerated.
The Cookhouse’s main dining room will serve as an overflow room. This room will accommodate another 150 people. It is right next to the banquet room where Jerry will be. It will be wired for sound and we will have at least three TVs in the room so the overflow crowd can watch and hear the action that is going right in the next room. The Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee is hosting Cookhouse biscuits and coffee in the overflow room, and for those outside participating in the rally.
At the same time, the Central Labor Council will stage a large rally for Jerry Brown in the Cookhouse parking lot, which will also be wired for sound so participants can hear Jerry speak. The Central Committee and the Brown campaign will supply Jerry Brown rally signs to anybody who wishes to join in.
In addition, those who want to participate in the Democratic Central Committee’s Get Out The Vote campaign on Saturday have an opportunity to get a reserved seat inside the banquet room with Jerry. This will require six hours of work on Saturday, and this opportunity is limited to 30 people.
For more information, please call the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee office at 707 445-3366.
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October 30, 2010 at 3:18 am
Andrew Bird
Thank you Eric for helping us getting the word out.
One thing I failed to put in the news release that you published above, is that KHUM is going to be in the room with Jerry broadcasting live. All the other local media will be there. News Channel 3, the Times-Standard, the North Coast Journal, etc. Any other local media who want to get in, please call me today, Saturday. You all have my cell number. I’m told by the Brown campaign advance people that no statewide or national press will be with Jerry on this leg of the tour. Access Humboldt will be shooting the event for them. And KIEM will have footage as well. As this is going to be a Get Out the Vote Tour, rather than a press tour, the Brown campaign is not scheduling press interviews with Jerry. However, I have had a couple of requests from local reporters for some interview time with Jerry. I have put those requests through, but I wouldn’t count on that happening. Jerry will be on a set schedule.
Liz Murguia, Mike Thompson’s Eureka representative, told me that Jerry Brown knows Humboldt County well because he has been here many times during his political career. When he was chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1989-91, Jerry came up here to deliver the keynote speech to the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee on a couple of occasions. So Jerry himself may have asked his campaign to get him up here.
Sunday’s Rally at the Samoa Cookhouse: The Brown campaign booked the Cookhouse before consulting the committee, and the Central Committee has been doing everything it can to overcome its limitations as a venue for a Rally.
The first thing we did is decide this is not going to be an insider only event. That is why the Central Committee did not book a bunch of reserved seats for its members. Same with the Central Labor Council. Both groups felt we should keep half the room available for open seating available to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis. And we have worked out a system that will prevent a repeat of what happened during the Clinton visit. We anticipate that people will get to the Cookhouse early to start lining up for the approximately 75 unreserved seats. Those people will be issued numbered slips based on where they are in line. When we start to seat people in the room, we will assign the open seats based on those numbers. Phillis Seawright, the Central Committee’s treasurer, will be the enforcer. Anyone trying to line cut will be dragged into the back lot by six union rougnecks and walloped and tossed into the Bay. We simply will not tolerate it.
So many people have come to our aid to help us make this Rally more accessible to those who can’t get inside the banquet room. Greg Gehr, Mo Hollis, Access Humboldt, KHUM and a host of others are devoting a substantial amount of time and work to wiring the entire Cookhouse for sound and video. That means the main dining room, which is right next to the banquet room where Jerry will be speaking, will have at least three televisions broadcasting the proceedings. We are using the dining room for overflow for people who can’t get into the banquet room. It holds another 150+ people.
There will be speakers outside in the parking lot as well, as we are expecting a large labor rally to assemble there.
The Cookhouse staff have been exceedingly cooperative with everything. They are basically letting us take over the place Sunday morning. Jeff, the manager, has been so cooperative.
Our goal is to have everyone who comes to the Rally Sunday morning feel like they are a part of the experience, even if they can’t get into the room with Jerry. I’m told by Brown campaign staff that Jerry likes to work the crowd, so he may come out into the overflow room and the parking lot to speak with people and shake hands. I’m told it depends a lot on his mood. I hope we will put him in a good mood by having a huge turnout to greet him.
I will be checking the blog throughout the day today, Saturday. I will try to answer questions that are posted here.
October 30, 2010 at 6:11 am
Anonymous
What qualifies one as a “local progresseive candidate”?
October 30, 2010 at 9:25 am
Dave Kirby
I attended a Democratic get together at the Eureka Inn years ago and Jerry was the keynote speaker. He arrived with that usual look on his face like he just stepped in a warm pile of dog shit. He is an example of a successful pol without a trace of charisma.
October 30, 2010 at 6:34 pm
anon
i voted for jerry but forgot to vote for eyster! damn, hope he don’t lose by one…
October 30, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Eric Kirk
Thanks Andrew. Will any local candidates appear on stage with him?
October 30, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Eric Kirk
He is an example of a successful pol without a trace of charisma.
He’s shown considerable charisma in the debates, which in addition to his ads are winning him the election. He showed even more in his debates with Clinton back in 92.
October 30, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Andrew Bird
Local Dem electeds and candidates will be in the room. I don’t know what Jerry will want to do with them. There is no space for them to all stand together on the riser. Wiyot tribal representative Cheryl Seidner will give a traditional Wiyot blessing at 8:25 a.m. Noreen Evans will open the program. Wesley Chesbro, my boss, will introduce Jerry. Jerry will take it from there. He will have a wireless mic so he will be able to move around the room if he wants, and into the next room, which we expect will be packed as well.
October 31, 2010 at 8:26 am
Mitch
I just can’t figure out the photo. Is it local? Did you take it?
October 31, 2010 at 10:02 am
Eric Kirk
No, it was on his website. I just liked it for some reason.
October 31, 2010 at 10:32 am
Mitch
Hmmph. I like it too, but I’d never have guessed you got it off his web site. Good for Jerry.
October 31, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Dave Kirby
E… Dont get me wrong I’m voting for Jerry. Meg will lose but it hasn’t anything to do with charisma. It may well be that he is at the right place at the exact right moment. His green stuff and new attitude could really be helpful. The fact is nobody will deliver “jobs” in the numbers needed and an old pro with maverick tendencies could help keep the ship afloat.
November 1, 2010 at 11:38 am
Richard "Rick" Khamsi
The entire speech can be seen on YouTube. Search on Jerry Brown Eureka.
The 25 minutes speech had to be uploaded in three parts.
Jerry Brown was hysterically funny, thanks to his dry humor and excellent comic timing.
Yet he squarely explains the challenges California will have to meet to make it, once again, the vibrant place it was 30 years ago (when Jerry Brown was Governor!)
November 1, 2010 at 5:38 pm
ED Denson
“He is an example of a successful pol without a trace of charisma.”
Kirby, I think its got something to do with his zen training. I met him, briefly, at the Stafford rally many years back and he was as close to not being there while being there as I’ve ever seen. Maybe it’s not zen, because it seemed to me that he was exactly “not in the moment” which would be the polar opposite of what my zen guys like. But he is famous for being “without affect, ” which means “unreadable, not responding to things around him especially people.”
Yet once he gets going evidently he goes from stone face to Jon Stewart, “thanks to his wry humor and comic timing” as Rick says. As Chuck says (Berry that is) “It goes to show you never can tell.”